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Better late than never! These figures are from Publishers Weekly based on what the publisher tells them and are for the calendar year. USA only. Disclaimer: It's a long list and I'm sure I missed some due to ignorance and you may disagree on my take on what fits into SFF. i.e....

OMG I'm not dead!!! And apparently The Republic of Thieves by some long haired hippy dude isn't either! io9 have a new chapter of the book over on there site as well as a link to amazon that says October 8th. Well golly that inspires confidence! No idea if this date has been confirmed by the publishers and...

Orbit have the first three chapter's of Butcher's next Dresden Novel 'Cold Days' up over on their facebook page. Ya have to "Like" them to read it it so if you don't have a facebook account your shit out of luck or maybe not as you can read the first 4 chapters over at http://www.jim-butcher.com. Just scroll through the...

Larry over at the OF Blog as posted a chat between two Squirrels discussing 'The Wise Mans Fear'. "We should be grateful for the opportunity to read such realistic fantasy. Often complaints can be heard about fantasy novels written with less ambition, that the settings are not believable enough. Finally, we have a book where we...

Tor will once again be releasing the full prologue of the next 'Wheel of Time' book. 'By Grace and Banners Fallen'(what a mouth full!) will be released on October 2nd from all good eBook retailers, though only North American's will be able to purchase it with ease. The rest of the world will have to track down less reputable...

 The Gollancz blog has an extract from Joe Abercrombie's next book 'Red Country' for your reading pleasure! Then they saw the farm, and the laughter choked in her throat and they sat silent while the wind fumbled through the grass around them. Shy couldn’t breathe, couldn’t speak, couldn’t think, all...

The Hugo's have come and gone again**Yawn**. Here be the main winners. Best Novel: Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) - Seems to be popular with the awards crowds.... Best Dramatic Presentation(long): Game of Thrones: Season 1 - To be expected and well deserved. That's it. The rest is fluff;) Tor have...

Copied directly and shamelessly from his website: To be released in hardcover from Penguin/Roc publishing, November 27, 2012. HARRY DRESDEN LIVES!!! After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way...

Why? Beats me? Anthony Ryan is the author of the self published hit 'Blood Song' which may or may not be the next big thing when repackaged next year by AceRoc. From his blog: Hi, I’m Anthony Ryan, writer of fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. I work full time as a...

He's a huge lefty twit on twitter. I'm just waiting for him to say "I'll be unable to write and will move to Canada if Romney wins" before I burn his books...... He's a talented writer. Duh! He has a new flash looking blog on which he writes "My current necessary edit to...